Husbands Will Be Scarce By 2023

The National Council of Catholic
Women Organisation of Nigeria on
Thursday warned against the
alarming drop of male-child in
education.
With the drop, the group noted
that in the next 10 years, there
would be a scarcity of quality
husbands in the country.
The organisation National
President, Chief Felicia Onyeabo,
stated this on Thursday at a
briefing to herald the inauguration
of Cor Mariae College, Abuja. The
inauguration holds on Friday
(today).
She said, "The future of this country
is going to be very bleak for the
male-child. How many girls do you
see hawking clothes? Go to Onitsha,
they are all men. We have looked
round and have come to see that
there is a neglect of boys in
education. Who are the armed
robbers on the streets? They are
mostly the boys. Let us concentrate
on training boys.
"The NCCWO feels that a vacuum is
being created, and very soon, we
shall be faced with a situation
where our educated girl-child will
not find a corresponding suitable
boy-child to marry. This is because
more boys drop out of school,
apparently because the high rate of
unemployed youth discourages our
young boys from appreciating the
need to be educated.
"The NCCWO also consideres the
fact that in the near future, quality
husbands will become extremely
scarce, with too many highly
educated women looking for
husbands, and settling for anyhow
husbands, just to get married. The
result of this type of situation is
better imagined and will not augur
well for Nigerians."